Designing A Bee Friendly Garden
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Designing a bee friendly garden. Bee garden basics 115 chapter 5. Beyond your own backyard becoming a bee activist 173. Create a small bee watering station by placing a shallow wide dish in the garden filled with clean water and a few stones the bees can stand on.
There are four essential elements for designing a bee garden. Closely related to wasps and ants these widespread insects include an amazing 16 000 species worldwide. Your flowers and vegetables can also enjoy having bees.
Bee friendly plants for every season summer. Their role is much bigger than making honey. Our friends the bees 15 chapter 2.
The benefits of a bee friendly garden 1 chapter 1. Limit the use of insecticides that are toxic to bees and other beneficial pollinators. Designing and creating a garden for pollinators is fun.
Choose plants with a long bloom period. Bee friendly plants for edible gardens 103 chapter 4. Natural species rather than hybrids produce nectar and pollen that is more accessible for bees native flowers can attract.
Design books news contact home landscaping design books news contact how to make your garden more bee friendly. If you want to make a bee friendly garden you re at the right place. Some guidelines for bee friendly garden plantings include the following.